MIR workshop 2011 day5 lab

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MIR Workshop Lab for Music Recommendation<b> <b>Douglas Eck, Google<b>


Overview

This lab covers the construction of parts of a music recommender. Focus is placed on building a similarity matrix from data and querying that matrix based on cosine distance. Fast programmers should be able to accomplish considerably more.


  • The basics (some Python code available to help).
    • Calculate acoustic features on CAL500 dataset (students should have already done this.)
    • Read in user tag annotations from same dataset provided by UCSD.
    • Build similarity matrix based on word vectors derived from these annotations.
    • Query similarity matrix with a track to get top hits based on cosine distance.
    • Build second similarity matrix using acoustic features.
    • Query this similarity matrix with track to get top hits based on cosine distance.
  • Extra (I didn't write code for this, but can help students find examples).
    • Query the EchoNest for additional acoustic features and compare to yours.
    • Use the CAL500 user annotations as ground truth and evaluate your audio features (ROC curve or some precision measure).
    • Compare a 2D visualization of acoustic features versus UCSD user annotations.


Lab code is found in /usr/ccrma/courses/mir20110/cal500_new. A previous version was uploaded at /usr/ccrma/courses/mir2011/cal500 but it was using filenames from my University of Montreal lab. I renamed audio files to match those of UCSD Cal500